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August 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney The power of the war photograph is that it won’t let you look away. And nowhere is this proving truer than in Gaza. One recent example portrayed a skeletal boy, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, ... <a title="Images from Gaza have shocked the world – but the ‘spectacle of suffering’ is a double-edged sword" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/images-from-gaza-have-shocked-the-world-but-the-spectacle-of-suffering-is-a-double-edged-sword-262693/" aria-label="Read more about Images from Gaza have shocked the world – but the ‘spectacle of suffering’ is a double-edged sword">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne Thurtell/Getty Images One student was routinely punished for her “ADHD behaviours” at school, another was locked in a classroom, while another was sent home 85 times in a single year. These are just some of the ... <a title="‘Several teachers didn’t believe in ADHD’: families speak about how students with disability are bullied and excluded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/18/several-teachers-didnt-believe-in-adhd-families-speak-about-how-students-with-disability-are-bullied-and-excluded-263052/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Several teachers didn’t believe in ADHD’: families speak about how students with disability are bullied and excluded">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England A New Zealand policeman pushed over an elderly man who was doing nothing but waving a Palestinian flag at a solidarity rally in Ōtautahi yesterday. Yes the man employed to protect the public committed a violent assault. Not a wee shove, a great big push that caused the man to fall ... <a title="Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/why-we-need-protection-from-brutality-of-some-thuggish-nz-police/" aria-label="Read more about Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The bizarre summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska should sway all but the most credulous doubters that the White House is more interested in friendly relations ... <a title="Putin got the red-carpet treatment from Trump. Where does this leave Ukraine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/putin-got-the-red-carpet-treatment-from-trump-where-does-this-leave-ukraine-260922/" aria-label="Read more about Putin got the red-carpet treatment from Trump. Where does this leave Ukraine?">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto This morning there is no article on the political page of The New Zealand Herald about the plight of people in Gaza, the same is the case at The Post and at RNZ. Even the 1News political page is Gaza free but what may stun you over a Sunday morning coffee ... <a title="Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/gerard-otto-on-palestine-genocide-and-the-media-not-if-but-when-but-not-now/" aria-label="Read more about Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if – but when – but not now’">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
Asia Pacific Report “Grow a spine for Palestine!” was a frequent theme among about 5000 people protesting in the heart of New Zealand’s largest city today as the protesters demanded that the coalition government should recognise the state of Palestine and stop supporting impunity for Israel. More than 62,000 people, mostly women and children, have ... <a title="Luxon ‘get a spine’ chants as big rallies call for NZ to recognise Palestine state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/luxon-get-a-spine-chants-as-big-rallies-call-for-nz-to-recognise-palestine-state/" aria-label="Read more about Luxon ‘get a spine’ chants as big rallies call for NZ to recognise Palestine state">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic attempt to erase an entire people from history on the basis of their ethnic identity. As a result, Israel is isolating itself as a pariah state on ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/16/gordon-campbell-the-lack-of-spine-in-new-zealands-foreign-policy-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy on Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Elizabeth Tako Palin is one of five women contesting the Bougainville North women’s reserved seat next month. It was previously held by Amanda Masono, who has chosen to contest the open Atolls seat, which was once held by her father. The autonomous Papua New Guinea region is holding ... <a title="‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/16/i-believe-i-can-elizabeth-palin-runs-for-bougainville-north-womens-seat/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I believe I can’: Elizabeth Palin runs for Bougainville North women’s seat">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. World War One is really the first conflagration of a Great World War which lasted between 1914 and 1945. That great war was a ‘”game” of two halves’ with an extended and less violent mid-war phase; total war, with an interregnum which exacerbated rather than resolved the trigger issues of early ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Goodies and Baddies? Lessons since the World War of 1914" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/keith-rankin-analysis-goodies-and-baddies-lessons-since-the-world-war-of-1914/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Goodies and Baddies? Lessons since the World War of 1914">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats at the July 19 Tasmanian state election, Labor ten, the Greens five, independents five and the Shooters, ... <a title="Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/greens-may-be-a-problem-for-labor-in-next-weeks-tasmanian-no-confidence-vote-262869/" aria-label="Read more about Greens may be a problem for Labor in next week’s Tasmanian no-confidence vote">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian A. Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images One of the world’s most dangerous water-borne microorganisms, commonly called a “brain-eating amoeba”, has recently been detected in two drinking water supplies in south-west Queensland. Both affected towns are about 750 ... <a title="A rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has been detected in Queensland water. Can I catch it by drinking tapwater? Or in the shower?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/a-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-has-been-detected-in-queensland-water-can-i-catch-it-by-drinking-tapwater-or-in-the-shower-263110/" aria-label="Read more about A rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ has been detected in Queensland water. Can I catch it by drinking tapwater? Or in the shower?">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Kira auf der Heide/Unsplash When you order a coffee, do you ask for it to be “extra hot”? Whether you enjoy tea, coffee or something else, hot drinks are a comforting and often highly personal ritual. ... <a title="Do hot drinks really give you cancer? A gut expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/15/do-hot-drinks-really-give-you-cancer-a-gut-expert-explains-261256/" aria-label="Read more about Do hot drinks really give you cancer? A gut expert explains">Read more</a>
